4 of us have used a local lawyer to start proceedings against a developer for not completing on time, we won the case in May 2009 at a cost of 9k euro each
lawyer advised that we wait for the developer's appeal before we apply for the "execution of the sentence".
the appeal was presented in June 2009 and we applied for to the court.
in the mean time we paid another 4k euro each to defend the appeal.
no hearing date being given for the appeal or the execution of the sentence.

since we won the case, how long before the court can give order for the execution? is there time limit? the lawyer says it is up to the court!!
can we force the developer to pay us back our deposit once the execution order is granted or do we havt to wait until the appeal hearing?
and is there further procedure to force the developer to pay after the execution order? and what is the time scale?
is there any goverment website showing litigations process and time allocated for each stage of the litigation and is there a process to speed court dealing with matters.
for example: is there maximium time for the court to deal with our application for the execution of the sentence?
many thanks
Salah Kamil
UK